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    constricting


    1. She said it was not constricting and Michael said it worked very well


    2. Some of the long-time professionals had tight bronze waistbands on them that were rolled into position, little by little over a period of months, constricting their waists and exaggerating their hips


    3. Deanna felt her stomach and throat constricting, wishing she’d drunk more of that water


    4. His mouth dry, throat constricting, and his stomach – amongst other things


    5. A peculiar churning began to writhe in Raven’s stomach, a tight, constricting pressure rising up to his throat, a sensation of weight bearing down upon his shoulders


    6. This curious sensation in his stomach and a constricting of the throat


    7. We entered my flat, my heart was pounding wildly, constricting my breathing and my nerves


    8. With constricting heart, I entered school to start a life sentence as a teacher


    9. by crushing it inside a constricting force field


    10. Perhaps the minds of those who enable these programs are themselves so desiccated from constricting the minds of others they don’t notice what is happening

    11. The same relationship continued without relief, and it became more and more evident that the only answer was to leave for another company as the constricting nature of my job continued to grow


    12. You can feel the pressure constricting around you, thirty seconds on your internal clock


    13. Those three words, uttered like an accusation, sent fear pounding, constricting Bart’s throat and drying his mouth


    14. Elmer opened the split end and forced the top cord into the gap, tying the opened end with hay twine and constricting the vascular cord to render the testicle bloodless


    15. Once the words were spoken, I felt a strange constricting force on my Power as if the curse were trying to grab onto something and not be ripped off but with a surge of light and Power, it gave way, and my energy field began to expand with an incredible rate


    16. Even with the woman’s weight constricting her lungs, Laura breathed faster, trying to inhale more air


    17. He worked desperately for several minutes, a growing fear constricting his chest


    18. For a long time, it was assumed that the wrinkles were simply the result of the skin swelling in water, but recent investigations have actually shown the furrows to be caused by the blood vessels constricting in reaction to the water, which in turn is a response controlled by the body’s sympathetic nervous system


    19. The aura of the air piled in on itself, constricting all of its contents, and the


    20. to arterial walls, constricting the flow of blood to the heart and the rest

    21. On the floor he placed his shin on the back of her neck constricting her


    22. constricting or boring or complicated


    23. You said that you have lived under constricting circumstances—would you have chosen to continue living that way if it meant you would be protected?”


    24. the central channel and constricting it


    25. tears, his handprint etched in flaming red on her cheek, sobs constricting her throat as he


    26. She kneads the muscles of his chest, and his breathing speeds up, growing deeper yet more constricting with each beat of his heart


    27. And now his arms are around her and instead of feeling nice, it feels constricting and suffocating


    28. The reason we have hearts that beat regularly is because before our 3-dimensional Universe emerged, the 2-dimensional Universe was originally a single infinite heart, beating regularly… constricting and expanding an infinite number of times… which collided and split and became two beating hearts


    29. He smokes a pipe and doesn’t inhale: he says it’s for constricting his blood vessels: that is how he manages his psychobiological pain


    30. His arm half around me wasn’t constricting me in any way other than the weight of his hand on my rear

    31. She was relieved that the neck was high enough it completely covered her neck and chest, and the body was loose and not constricting


    32. They locked eyes, and the shape of the goblin's ugly grimace mirrored into Eric's stomach; constricting it and making it nauseous


    33. Be ready? For what? She shook her head, frustrated that Jo had talked her into wearing this constricting dress


    34. A wire had tightened across my chest, constricting my breath


    35. According to their study, wild blueberry consumption (2 cups per day) for eight weeks was shown to regulate and improve the balance between relaxing and constricting factors in the vascular wall in obese rats


    36. My heart slams against my chest, and the butterflies escape from my stomach into my constricting throat


    37. I’d rather “Oh!” thought Scarlett, her throat constricting


    38. John Sampson pulled at the constricting knot around his neck and ripped the damn thing off


    39. The company was developing a treatment for angina (the painful heart condition caused by constricting or clogging of heart arteries), when the users of this drug began to report that it improved their ability to have erections


    40. What my sensations were no language can describe; but just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl came up and passed me: in passing, she lifted her eyes

    41. Remove the victim’s smouldering clothing and any constricting garments, jewellery, etc, which may become tighter if swelling occurs


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    Synonyms for "constricting"

    constricting constrictive narrowing

    "constricting" definitions

    (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom